拖
tuō HSK6

drag

拖 tuō
drag verb
to pull, tow, or trail something behind or along the ground

他拖着沉重的行李箱走进了火车站。

tā tuō zhe chén​zhòng de xíng​li​xiāng zǒu​jìn le huǒ​chē​zhàn.

He dragged his heavy suitcase into the train station.

delay verb
to postpone, procrastinate, or allow a process to drag on

这件工作不能再拖了，必须尽快完成。

zhè jiàn gōng​zuò bù néng zài tuō le, bì​xū jǐn​kuài wán​chéng.

This job cannot be put off any longer; it must be finished as soon as possible.

mop verb
to clean a surface, especially a floor, with a mop

请在大扫除时把地板拖干净。

qǐng zài dà​sǎo​chú shí bǎ dì​bǎn tuō gān​jìng.

Please mop the floor clean during the spring cleaning.

trail verb
to hang or dangle down, often touching the ground

她的长裙拖在地上，沾了不少灰尘。

tā de cháng​qún tuō zài dì​shang, zhān le bù​shǎo huī​chén.

Her long dress trailed on the ground and picked up a lot of dust.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,492nd most common 72.2 per million
Movie subtitles
1,197th most common 71.1 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
55.4 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
45.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62D6

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)